Word: mica
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...homosexual, and rouged and powdered his cheeks. One room of his house was decorated as a snow scene, with a polar bear rug. a sleigh, and mica hoarfrost. He sometimes wore a white velvet suit and a bunch of violets in the neck of his shirt instead of a cravat. But he did have cravats. 100 of them in "tender pastel shades" that hung in a glass cupboard in his bathroom...
...River, which alone could provide enough power to meet British Columbia's needs for years to come. A second idea is to develop the Columbia River, dammed at nine points in the U.S. and nowhere in Canada. The idea is to build a dam on the Columbia at Mica Creek, north of Revelstoke, B.C., to generate...
...tend to be conspicuously witty or pretty, run a stellar range from Addams, Charles, to Zorina, Vera. To Book-of-the-Month Club Judge John Mason Brown, "John's foible isn't name-dropping, it's name-wonder. He's never got over the mica that's in names. He has a child's sense of giving a party, a fairyland belief in celebrities." One fairyland fable who slips frequently in and out of the house on East 62nd Street is Greta Garbo, the "G.G." to whom John Gunther dedicated Inside Russia Today, along...
...Black Sheep. Whether the Soviet Union can be anything but a monolithic state in which all opponents must, of necessity and for public instruction, be physically annihilated sooner or later depends at present on a rotund, cup-nosed, mica-eyed man who was bustling and belly-laughing his way through Czechoslovakia last week. Xikita Khrushchev, the muzhik with the mostest. was acting like a champion who has dusted off the challenger. Overflowing with friendship and good humor, he bussed pale, frigid Czech Communist Leader Antonin Novotny on both cheeks and rode through Prague, which was tapestried with flags and banners...
...Petroquímica seems destined not only to grow but to become a threat to foreign oilmen. Caldera is building a small (3,000 bbl. a day) oil refinery, plans to build a huge one (300,000 bbl. a day) in the industry's third phase. The fact that most refining of Venezuelan crude is now done elsewhere is a sore issue between the government and the foreign-owned companies. La Petroquímica's action in building refineries, which primarily make fuel rather than the raw materials of petrochemicals, is a clear statement that Venezuela intends...